Thanks Jake, Holder <3 Glad to hear that this style is being received well haha. Gives me more confidence to make more complextro haha.

Awesome to get mentioned on here already! 

I bet about 95% of my synth sounds are probably made in Sylenth. I like to keep my sounds simple and clean.

I'd say future bass is definitely more about songwriting than it is about sound design. Like a few people here already mentioned, adding 2nds, 4ths and 7ths to your chords will help give them a bit more depth and emotion (not just for future bass obviously). I tend to use a lot of dissonant harmonies in my chords as well, I think a lot of people aren't used to using those types of harmonies in their chords. My music teacher in high school once asked me to describe a dissonant harmony and I answered "they always sound ugly" and he said "not if you use them in the right way", and that actually completely changed the way I wrote my chords.

Also something I absolutely looooove is using nice clean sounding, slightly detuned saw (most of the time using 2 voices) synth leads for my main melodies or solos. I use an LFO to add vibrato and then I automate the gain to make it sound funkier, I also use a lot of pitch bending and/or portamento as well to give it a bit more depth. To make it sound smoother I always use a nice lowpassed ping pong delay. Highpassing out anything below 120 Hz on the leads always seems to help with that as well.

One little trick I always use is slightly bit crushing the leads to give them a little 'crunch'. If I'm using a bit crusher though, I always lowpass anything above 20K, you might not hear those super high frequencies but your dog might. Even if you're not hearing it it might still clean up your mix and bit crushers always add nasty unwanted frequencies.

Thanks so much for your input dude. LU #nohomo

Im glad you learned something from it

I always say this:
- Music theory is not necessary, however it can be a good addition to your 'toolbox'. It wont help you 'suddenly' write better songs, but it will help you understand why some chord progressions sound good (or bad) or why chords and melodies can hold tension and have a sense of movement etc.

I know great producers/musicians who know theory and i know others who don't know theory. At the end of the day its all got to do with how good you're at coming up with catchy, original stuff.

Thanks for the kind replies everyone

Yes ! Great stuff, the melody is well written !

and my gawd these drums sounds hellagood !
Keep up the good work !

I sidechained the snare to the kick so the kick's transient would punch through and i also sidechained the kick to the snare, so the snare's thump wouldn't clash with the kick whenever they played together

Imo you cannot really get the best mix possible without using monitors. You can have the most expensive headphones ever, but imo you really need proper monitors to mix. It just gives a different feel, more detailed experience. Atleast, thats how i feel from own experience haha.

Hahaha. Is that good or bad :')?